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Read the statements given below and identify the concepts explained in them.
During the same experiment Viraj observes that as the white light passes from rarer to denser medium, it gets dispersed. In the denser medium, as Viraj moves from violet light to red light, what happens to the refractive index of the medium?

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It decreases
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